List of Famous people born in Texas, United States of America

Brock Wyatt Holt, nicknamed The Brock Star, is an American professional utility player who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Boston Red Sox, Milwaukee Brewers, and Washington Nationals.

Jimmy Ray Dean was an American country music singer, television host, actor, and businessman. He was the creator of the Jimmy Dean sausage brand as well as the spokesman for its TV commercials.

Rafer Lewis Johnson was an American decathlete and film actor. He was the 1960 Olympic gold medalist in the decathlon, having won silver in 1956. He had previously won a gold in the 1955 Pan American Games. He was the USA team's flag bearer at the 1960 Olympics and lit the Olympic cauldron at the Los Angeles Games in 1984.

Carl Demonte Crawford, nicknamed "The Perfect Storm", is an American former professional baseball left fielder. He batted and threw left-handed.

Chukwuemeka Ndubuisi "Emeka" Okafor is an American professional basketball player. Okafor attended Bellaire High School in Bellaire, Texas and the University of Connecticut, where in 2004 he won a national championship. In his first season in the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 2004-05, Okafor was named Rookie of the Year.

Dexter Keith Manley, nicknamed the "Secretary of Defense" is a former American football defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Washington Redskins, Phoenix Cardinals, and Tampa Bay Buccaneers in an 11-year career from 1981 to 1991. He also played in the Canadian Football League for the Ottawa Rough Riders and the Shreveport Pirates. Manley played college football at Oklahoma State University.

Deborah Scaling Kiley was an American sailor, author, motivational speaker, and businesswoman. She was the first American woman to complete the Whitbread Round the World Race and famously survived a boating accident in 1982 off the coast of North Carolina, which became the subject of TV shows, books and films.

Julissa D'Anne Gomez was an American gymnast whose rapid rise through the ranks of elite gymnastics in the mid-1980s was cut short by a vaulting accident in 1988 that left her a quadriplegic. She eventually died from her injury. She was being coached by Al Fong, and had previously been coached by Bela Karolyi.

Kitty Linn O'Neil was an American stuntwoman and racer, known as "the fastest woman in the world". An illness in early childhood left her deaf, and more illnesses in early adulthood cut short a career in diving. O'Neil's career as a stuntwoman and race driver led to her depiction in a television movie and as an action figure. Her women's absolute land speed record stood until 2019.

Henry Ross Perot Jr. is a real estate developer and American businessman who is best known for his development of Alliance, Texas, an inland port near Dallas–Fort Worth, and making the first circumnavigation of the world in a helicopter at the age of 23.